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🎎 Vintage Japanese Tanuki Ceramic Figure – Late Showa Era – Japan Antique Roadshow product image (1)
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🎎 Vintage Japanese Tanuki Ceramic Figure – Late Showa Era – Japan Antique Roadshow product image (5)
🎎 Vintage Japanese Tanuki Ceramic Figure – Late Showa Era – Japan Antique Roadshow product image (6)
🎎 Vintage Japanese Tanuki Ceramic Figure – Late Showa Era – Japan Antique Roadshow product image (7)
🎎 Vintage Japanese Tanuki Ceramic Figure – Late Showa Era – Japan Antique Roadshow product image (8)
🎎 Vintage Japanese Tanuki Ceramic Figure – Late Showa Era – Japan Antique Roadshow product image (9)
🎎 Vintage Japanese Tanuki Ceramic Figure – Late Showa Era – Japan Antique Roadshow product image (10)
🎎 Vintage Japanese Tanuki Ceramic Figure – Late Showa Era – Japan Antique Roadshow product image (11)
🎎 Vintage Japanese Tanuki Ceramic Figure – Late Showa Era – Japan Antique Roadshow product image (12)
🎎 Vintage Japanese Tanuki Ceramic Figure – Late Showa Era – Japan Antique Roadshow product image (1)
🎎 Vintage Japanese Tanuki Ceramic Figure – Late Showa Era – Japan Antique Roadshow product image (2)
🎎 Vintage Japanese Tanuki Ceramic Figure – Late Showa Era – Japan Antique Roadshow product image (3)
🎎 Vintage Japanese Tanuki Ceramic Figure – Late Showa Era – Japan Antique Roadshow product image (4)
🎎 Vintage Japanese Tanuki Ceramic Figure – Late Showa Era – Japan Antique Roadshow product image (5)
🎎 Vintage Japanese Tanuki Ceramic Figure – Late Showa Era – Japan Antique Roadshow product image (6)
🎎 Vintage Japanese Tanuki Ceramic Figure – Late Showa Era – Japan Antique Roadshow product image (7)
🎎 Vintage Japanese Tanuki Ceramic Figure – Late Showa Era – Japan Antique Roadshow product image (8)
🎎 Vintage Japanese Tanuki Ceramic Figure – Late Showa Era – Japan Antique Roadshow product image (9)
🎎 Vintage Japanese Tanuki Ceramic Figure – Late Showa Era – Japan Antique Roadshow product image (10)
🎎 Vintage Japanese Tanuki Ceramic Figure – Late Showa Era – Japan Antique Roadshow product image (11)
🎎 Vintage Japanese Tanuki Ceramic Figure – Late Showa Era – Japan Antique Roadshow product image (12)

🎎 Vintage Japanese Tanuki Ceramic Figure – Late Showa Era – Japan Antique Roadshow

€108.77

🎎 In Japanese folklore, the tanuki (狸) is a playful trickster and bringer of prosperity, often portrayed with a sake flask for merriment and a ledger for business. This mid-Shōwa era ceramic figure (c. 1950s–1970s) captures that blend of humor and meaning—comic and wise, whimsical yet cautionary.

The imagery is layered with symbolism: the round belly suggests overindulgence, the sake flask hints at pleasures that can lead to debt (reinforced by the promissory note), while the exaggerated testicles symbolize desire and risk, balanced by a diminutive phallus—an almost moral tale about excess and restraint. In homes, such figures were guardians and greeters, standing in entryways or alcoves to welcome fortune and laughter, while reminding their owners of life’s playful contradictions.

📏 Approximate details
• Height: 19 cm
• Weight: 530 g
• Material: Painted glazed ceramic, hollow construction
• Era: Mid-Shōwa (c. 1950s–1970s)
• Condition: Very good; light age wear, stable, no cracks

Curated in Shizuoka City by Kurt Bell, this tanuki is more than decoration—it’s a vessel of folk wisdom, fortune, and mischief, a reminder that joy and folly often arrive hand in hand.
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